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By Sharon R. Kaufman. 345 pp., illustrated. Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. $27.50. ISBN 0-299-13550-0.

With reform in the air, The Healer's Tale is a timely and thoughtful inquiry into the tremendous changes that have transformed medicine in the past half-century. Whereas the traditional role of the physician, once a diagnosis had been arrived at, was to provide care and comfort to the patient, and an occasional cure, the emphasis has now shifted to a technological understanding of disease and its control, as well as life and death. The result is often a conflict between technology and morality.

The author, Sharon Kaufman, a medical anthropologist at the University of California, proposes the following hypothesis: "As . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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